Patrick White

Rosie Cooper

Stuart Lenig

Sarah McNulty

Simon Morse

Daniel Whibley

This work represents a pilgrimage of geometry, traveling to Ecuador in search of
the middle of the Earth, consisting of three photographic images, each with a
claim to being the 'mitad del mundo'.

The first is of the monumental statue at the middle of the Earth, built at a
point where the equator was thought to pass through the country. A large theme
park-like town has been built around this focal point. Studies using GPS later
proved that the equator does not run through this site. Tourists still flock to
the attraction.

The second photograph depicts the Inti Nan Solar Museum, a site that indigenous
people identified as a point through which the equator passes, long before the
monument in photograph one was built (approximately 200m away). Unlike the
statuesque, false monument, the Inti Nan Solar Museum retains a makeshift
appearance, allowing visitors to empirically prove that this is the actual point
of the equator by carrying out a number of simple experiments (such as balancing
an egg on a nail, or observing water travel either clockwise or
counter-clockwise down a plug hole depending on the side of the equator the
experiment is carried out on). The globe atop the false monument can be seen in
the background of this image.

The third photograph was taken in the depths of the Ecuadorial Amazon basin at
a site that a local guide proclaimed to be the point at which the equator passed
through this area of the country. I marked this spot with a football.